Re: half-evolved feathers

Thom Quinn (swo@execpc.com)
Sat, 04 Apr 1998 20:46:09 -0600

I've heard this is not true and all 51 are still accepted because the
Bible is the work of men, not God. Do you know what they are?

Ron Chitwood wrote:
In 1860 the French Academy of Science postulated 51 findings that proved
the Bible wrong. Today not one is accepted.

Ron Chitwood wrote:
>
> GM>>>Feduccia and Wild relate:
>
> "Megalancosaurus, in combination with Longisquama, a Lower
> Triassic thecodont with featherlike scales and furcula, render
> this group (basal archosaurs, including thecodonts) the most
> liekly candidate for proximity to avian ancestry."~A. Feduccia
> and R. Wild, "Birdlike Characters in the Triassic Archosaur
> Megalancosaurus," Naturwissenschaften, 80(1993):564-566
>
> It would appear that the antievolutionary claim is not verified by
> observational data.<<<<
>
> Why do you assume they are right and Morris and Parker are wrong. Couldn't
> their observations be erroneous and based on their predisposition to
> macroevolution? As an example, observations concluded that Neanderthal
> man was brutish , sub-human and walked with a stoop until it was
> discovered that the speciman they had been examining merely suffered from
> rickets. After that the dioramas of museums all over the world had to be
> modified to fit the findings. One time it was a geocentric earth that was
> considered sacrosanct based on Ptolemaic observations. Galileo had to
> recant of his findings or find himself excommunicated. The observations of
> one generation easily become shortcomings in the next. In 1860 the French
> Academy of Science postulated 51 findings that proved the Bible wrong.
> Today not one is accepted. I could go on and on but the point is made.
> glenn
>
> Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
> and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
> Ron Chitwood
> chitw@flash.net
>
> ----------
> > From: Glenn Morton <grmorton@waymark.net>
> > To: evolution@calvin.edu
> > Subject: half-evolved feathers
> > Date: Saturday, April 04, 1998 2:09 PM
> >
> > I just ran into the following data which contradicts one of the favorite
> > anti-evolutionary claims. The claim is as follows, Morris and Parker
> state,
> >
> >
> > "There are no true transitional forms (that is, in the sense of
> > forms containing incipient, developing or transitional structures
> > - such as half- scales/half feathers, or half-legs/ half wings)
> > anywhere among all the billions of known fossil forms." ~Henry M.
> > Morris and Gary E. Parker, What is Creation Science?, (El Cajon:
> > Master Books, 1987), p. 11
> >
> > Feduccia and Wild relate:
> >
> > "Megalancosaurus, in combination with Longisquama, a Lower
> > Triassic thecodont with featherlike scales and furcula, render
> > this group (basal archosaurs, including thecodonts) the most
> > liekly candidate for proximity to avian ancestry."~A. Feduccia
> > and R. Wild, "Birdlike Characters in the Triassic Archosaur
> > Megalancosaurus," Naturwissenschaften, 80(1993):564-566
> >
> > It would appear that the antievolutionary claim is not verified by
> > observational data.
> >
> > glenn
> >
> > Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
> >
> > and
> >
> > Foundation, Fall and Flood
> > http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm
> >